UK National Lotto #1274

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 8th March 2008:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,807,426	1	£4,807,426	32.0%
5+bonus	£82,178	18	£1,479,204	9.9%
5 match	£1,819	508	£924,052	6.2%
4 match	£64	31,309	£2,003,776	13.3%
3 match	£10	580,353	£5,803,530	38.6%
Totals	612,189		£15,017,988	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.0% fall	£33,441,289	64.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.2% fall	£18,273,877	35.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.7% fall	£51,715,166

Lotto HotPicks #592 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	1	£130,000	10.3%
Pick 4	£7,000	15	£105,000	8.3%
Pick 3	£450	1,153	£518,850	41.0%
Pick 2	£40	11,806	£472,240	37.4%
Pick 1	£5	7,674	£38,370	3.0%
Totals	20,649		£1,264,460	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £61.24.

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.

		Updated Frequencies			Since Last Appeared
Drawn	Order	Main	Bonus	Total	Main	Bonus	Either
1st	31	171	34	205	5	52	5
2nd	04	151	27	178	13	2	2
3rd	47	170	25	195	1	93	1
4th	30	166	26	192	3	78	3
5th	18	156	19	175	6	84	6
6th	15	143	24	167	9	31	9
Bonus	09	161	30	191	6	204	6
Total	154	1118	185	1303	43	544	32
Avg.	22.0	159.7	26.4	186.1	6.1	77.7	4.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.53. One in every 54.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.83% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,811,044.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 24 wins totalling £454.

From Saturday 12th July 2003 onwards, Camelot has completely refused to issue per-draw sales figures for any of their individual games, despite continuously doing so for more than 8 years prior to that date. They blamed the media for only concentrating on the main Lotto game sales (which have been falling steadily for years), which seems to be a poor excuse to me. However, games with variable prize tiers such as the main Lotto can have their sales figures reverse-calculated to within a few pounds, which is what I have done.

Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 5.30pm BST on Thursday 4th September 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1275 (Wednesday 12th March 2008) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1273 (Wednesday 5th March 2008) [2 jackpot winners]

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